Wu Lyf have revealed how their love of Tom Waits has helped them deal with the press.

Wu Lyf began as an enigma, shrouded in mystery, draped in reverb. The Manchester band refused to play outside the city and according to legend once made a London based A&R pay fifty quid for a demo.

Over time, though, the band's attitude has mellowed. Debut album 'Go Tell Fire On The Mountain' was followed by several press interviews, which revealed a precocious group perhaps not yet ready for acclaim.

Making several live appearances over the summer, Wu Lyf have also lined up a full British tour in the Autumn. Yet this hasn't helped mellow relations between the Manchester band and the press.

Speaking to Pitchfork, Ellery Roberts revealed that Tom Waits has influenced how the band approach the media. "I just finished reading a biography of him a couple months back and it's interesting how the character of Tom Waits that everyone knows is a complete fiction to the reality of Tom Waits" he said. "He kind of used it as a shield from his insecurities about having to put on this larger-than-life persona. If I was as intelligent and funny as Tom Waits, I would be happy to do things like that. But I don't think I am."

"I've not really done many interviews and I never really wanted to do them at all. But if you keep your mouth shut, people start talking for you. And it was getting ridiculous. The anonymity on our part was played up by the media, but we always thought the mystery behind it was kind of cheesy. It just came out of a disinterest in the bullshit of 2011; we were reacting to the over-saturation of information."

Continuing, Roberts used an appearance on Radio 1 as an example of just how they intend to split opinion. "I spoke to my mum yesterday 'cause we did this thing on Radio 1 in England. We didn't take the big radio debut so seriously and just acted like dickhead radio disc jockeys. My mum was like, "The presenter said, 'That was the worst interview I've ever done. But it's OK because tomorrow I'm going to speak to Mumford & Sons, and they're lovely boys.'" But my mum respects my disrespect."

"We're similar minds. She knew how little Radio 1 meant to us. I'd much rather people hate us than just give us a general seal of approval."

Coldplay finishes the new "Mylo Xyloto," a candid and detailed conversation with Chris Martin, Jonny Buckland and manager Dave Holmes about harvesting the best songs, executing a bold global plan-and choosing to create without fear.

He offers a Perrier. In his dressing room, prior to a gig at UCLA's Los Angeles Tennis Center, Coldplay's Chris Martin is polite and engaging, showing no signs that he and his bandmates are neck-deep and under the gun in the painstaking process of completing the next Coldplay album

Titled "Mylo Xyloto" and due Oct. 24 worldwide (except for North America, where it will debut Oct. 25) on Capitol Records, the album will be Coldplay's fifth, and comes at a critical juncture for a band entering its second decade. This will be its first record in three years, and not only does the band's loyal fans crave new music, but the industry at large is looking for more evidence that Coldplay is indeed still on an upward trajectory as an international mega-band with decades of staying power. "Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends" (2008) debuted at No. 1 and has sold 2.8 million units in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and the tour in support of it grossed more than $126 million and moved more than 1.7 million tickets to 94 shows, according to Billboard Boxscore.

Embarking on a new cycle, spirits, like expectations, are high. "We've been together long enough that I know how everyone else is feeling, and it makes me excited when I feel the others are excited," Martin says. "They seem pretty fired up. I think we have a lot to prove to ourselves. There's no point in not going for it." This is global go-time for Martin and Jonny Buckland (guitar), Guy Berryman (bass) and Will Champion (drums), as the band and its team transition from showcasing choice songs at festivals to teeing up the launch of the record in earnest. Of course, they have to finish it first.

This gorgeous evening in Los Angeles, the members of Coldplay are completely immersed in this still-evolving project-to the point of mixing the romantic ballad "Us Against the World" that very day. That one is "a keeper," Martin says. But the fate of other songs that the band has written and recorded since "Viva la Vida," including the eight heard by Billboard prior to the show, is very much in play.

"Because we haven't sequenced it yet, the goal is to leave it in a peaceful place when we finish it," Martin says. "The hope is for the record to be free from any musical kind of box. It very much comes from the Brian Eno professorship of, 'Go anywhere. As long as it's you guys, you can go anywhere.'"

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LMFAO is loving life atop the Billboard Hot 100 as "Party Rock Anthem," featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock, will continue to blare from the No. 1 slot on the ranking set to be unveiled tomorrow (Aug. 11).

On Digital Songs, "Party Rock Anthem" dips below 200,000 downloads for the fist time in eight weeks (185,000, down 8%), according to Nielsen SoundScan, although it still tops the sales tally for a sixth frame. The title retreats 1-2 on Radio Songs- after spending a solitary week at No. 1- with 146.7 million audience impressions (up less than 1%), according to Nielsen BDS, surpassed ever so slightly on the ranking by Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" which posts 146.9 million impressions (up 2%).

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On the Hot 100, Perry's "Friday" waits patiently at No. 2 for a third straight week, trying ever so hard to reach the pinnacle with what would be a record-tying fifth No. 1 from her album "Teenage Dream." Perry has already set the mark of five chart-toppers from one album on the top 40-radio based Pop Songs chart as well as on Digital Songs, and she now also sets that feat on the all-format Radio Songs chart which includes airplay from a cross-section of radio formats, spanning over 1,200 stations.

Perry breaks out of a tie on Radio Songs with Usher, who scored four No. 1's from his 2004 "Confessions" album; "Yeah!," featuring Lil Jon & Ludacris, "Burn," "Confessions Part II," and "My Boo," featuring Alicia Keys.

In addition, with "Friday" becoming her fifth straight No. 1 on Radio Songs, Perry ties Rihanna for the longest successive streak of chart-toppers on the list. Rihanna's handful of No. 1s began in April 2010 with "Rude Boy" and continued through early this year with "Love the Way You Lie" with Eminem, "Only Girl (In the World)," "What's My Name?" featuring Drake, and "S&M."

Now back to the Hot 100, as reported last week, a new remix of Perry's "Friday" featuring Missy Elliott hit radio and digital retailers on Monday (Aug. 8). Radio and sales increases related to that release will fully affect next week's chart (this week's tally includes airplay through end of day, Aug. 9). Whatever impact the remix will have needs to reverse a significant downward download trend, as "Friday" falls 10% this week (136,000), the seventh straight week it has posted a sales decline.

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And in non-Katy Perry news, the NBC network helps out one of its own as "The Voice" coach Adam Levine and his band Maroon 5 see their track "Moves Like Jagger," featuring fellow "Voice" mentor Christina Aguilera, swaggers back into the Hot 100 top 10 (25-8) for the first time in six weeks. The band performed the single on the Aug. 3 edition of "America's Got Talent" and then two days later on the network's "Today Show," leading to a 124% gain in downloads (159,000). The spike is enough to propel the track 17-3 on Digital Songs and earn it the Digital Gainer distinction on the Hot 100. "Jagger" debuted at No. 8 on the Hot 100 dated July 9, selling 213,000 following the song's premiere on the "The Voice" season finale.

Elsewhere in the top 10, Nicki Minaj remains at No. 3 with "Super Bass" and Pitbull's former No. 1 "Give Me Eveything," featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer holds at No. 4. "Lighters" by Bad Meets Evil featuring Bruno Mars claims the Airplay Gainer award as it climbs 7-5. The song audience impressions improve by 35 to 78 million, bringing the track into the top 10 of Radio Songs (15-10). Dropping a spot to No. 6 on the Hot 100 is Lil Wayne's "How to Love," while Britney Spears' "I Wanna Go" goes up 9-7.

Rounding out the upper tier are Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" (6-9) and "Tonight Tonight" by Hot Chelle Rae (8-10).

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The Hot 100's top debut belongs to metal band Five Finger Death Punch which comes in at No. 77 with "Under and Over It." The track shifts 31,000 downloads in its first week of release and opens at No. 49 on Digital Songs. The title jumps 39-27 on the radio-based Rock Songs ranking.

Hip-hop has long benefited from camaraderie and collaboration, from Dre and Snoop's West Coast repping to Clipse's drug-dealer verse-trading. With the release of "Watch The Throne," Kanye West and Jay-Z join the list of hip-hop artists who used their individual skills to create lasting music as part of a duo.

Check out Billboard.com's list of 20 Dynamic Hip-Hop Duos, and tell us who you think is the greatest rap duo of all time.

Singer/actress Hilary Duff, 23, is expecting her first child with husband Mike Comrie, 30. Duff announced the pregnancy, which arrives on the one-year anniversary of the couple's marriage, on her official website on Sunday (Aug. 14).

"This weekend, Mike and I are celebrating our 1 year anniversary... We also want to share the exciting news that..... BABY MAKES THREE!!!" Duff wrote. "We are extremely happy and ready to start this new chapter of our lives."

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Duff wed hockey star Comrie last year in Santa Barbara, Calif. The former "Lizzie McGuire" star's latest album, "Dignity," was released in 20

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Last month, Amy Lee invited MTV News down to Nashville, where Evanescence were putting the finishing touches on their first album in nearly five years. While we were down there, she played a handful of tracks for our cameras — including first single "What You Want" and the ethereal "Lost In Paradise" — plus some songs that weren't quite ready for broadcast, chief among them a rather epic bit of rock that was (at the time) called "Orange."

Much like "What You Want," the song was a definite departure for the band: a big, bold ballad that pushed their sound further than it's ever been pushed before (Lee described it as "beautiful [and] epic ... about loss from the perspective of someone losing someone in a tragedy"). Of course, unlike "Want," it wasn't quite finished yet, which was why the band was hesitant to let fans hear it.

Of course, fast-forward roughly a month — to the premiere of "What You Want" — and things have changed. Not only is "Orange" completed, but it's taken on a new name too: "Never Go Back." But the song's message, and the events that inspired it, remain the same, as Lee told MTV News.

"It wasn't about my life so much. ... When we first got into pre-production, the earthquakes and tsunami happened in Japan, and we were all just totally glued to paying attention to it, all these incredibly heartbreaking images, and we just [thought], 'Wow,' " she said. "And I was thinking about it a lot. It was consuming my mind, and we were working on that song at the same time. I was kind of working on lyrics at night; we'd practice all day, and I'd go home at night and be working on lyrics by myself. And I came in the next day and was like, 'Guys, I'm going to make this song about the tsunami.' "

And in writing about the natural disasters in Japan, Lee discovered a depth she didn't know she had — one that not only instills "Never Go Back" with true power, but helped push Evanescence's self-titled album to new heights.

"I was singing it to [my bandmates] in the car, and everyone was like, 'I got goose bumps,' " Lee said. "I'm feeling this human connection with [the Japan tragedy]; obviously, I haven't experienced it, but it was cool to write about something a little bit outside myself, that isn't what I usually do. And I love that song."

Today, Hip Hop mourns the loss of one of its founding pioneers, Jeffery "KING KASE 2" Brown. Kase 2, as he was also referred to, was known as the "King Of Style" in the world of graffiti art. Featured in the classic Hip Hop documentary Style Wars, Kase 2 will be forever remembered for his elaborate artwork and overwhelming confidence in his abilities.

DJ Kay Slay, also featured in Styles Wars film, tweeted earlier today (August 14) in the memory of Kase 2. Kay Slay also said via his Twitter account that Brown succumbed to cancer although official reports have yet to surface. Even with one arm, Kase 2 and his style was inimitable although many tried to emulate his epic work. Below is a tribute to Kase 2 from his protege Edwin "King Phade" Sacasa

Radiohead's website is currently streaming the fourth and latest edition of their ongoing series of 12" singles, each of which offers up remixes of tracks from the band's 2011 album The King of Limbs. In this installment, Thriller renovates "Give Up the Ghost", Illum Sphere has a crack at "Codex", and Shed re-imagines "Little by Little". The single will be for sale digitally on Monday, with 12"s arriving soon. Listen to it below.

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